Marbury v. Madison
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- The year was...............
- The President was ..............................
- However, ................. had just lost the election to ............ who was a Republican, rather than a federalist.
- I can't have this new President undoing all of my good work! I know, I'll appoint some new judges!
- I, President ..............., appoint ____ new circuit judges, and _____ new justices of the peace, including Marbury
- The President signed, and Congress approved, but Marbury had a problem...
- Marbury travelled to Washington to complain, and filed a lawsuit directly to the Supreme Court.
- Marbury was able to take his case straight the SCOTUS because...
- At this point, SCOTUS was meeting in the basement of the Capitol!
- Chief Justice Marshall believed that Marbury had been wronged, but he knew that he couldn't be seen to overrule the new President
- Instead, Marshall came up with an ingenious solution:
- ...and with this one case, US politics changed forever. This was because the Supreme Court had granted themselves the power of...
- These powers have been used in major cases such as Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges
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